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Multiple archives with tar
Well, stuffit expander is a great thing to extract something fast. But which software do you use to compress things into multiple volumes? After a quick search I figured, that it's better and faster to stick to tar and avoid this "pay for click" MacOS stuff:
tar -c -M --tape-length=1024000 -f archive1.tar -f archive2.tar -f archive3.tar -f archive4.tar -f archive5.tar -f archive6.tar -f archive7.tar -f archive8.tar 'large file with spaces'
This creates 8 files, each 1000MB because my "large file with spaces" is 7.7GB. You better don't miscount the number of your needed archives 
tar -x -M --file=archive1.tar --file=archive2.tar --file=archive3.tar --file=archive4.tar --file=archive5.tar --file=archive6.tar --file=archive7.tar --file=archive8.tar 'large file with spaces'
The above command extracts your stuff again, HTH
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